Word: year
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week they were busily restocking. After ten months of successive decline, U.S. retail inventories had jumped a tidy $500 million in September. There was still a tremendous amount of pent-up buying power. Disposable income had risen 4.8% in 1949's first half over the same period last year, to an annual rate of $194.6 billion, and personal savings had almost doubled...
...always been and still are a mystery, some facts about its dividends and ownership came out last week. In a report to Detroit's Probate Court, Clara Ford, widow of Henry the First, reported that the company paid out two dividends amounting to $4.50 a share for the year ending last July...
General Motors Corp., with a profit of $502.4 million in the first nine months of 1949, last week voted to pass out a year-end cash dividend of $187,000,000, biggest in U.S. history...
Instead of that, Labor M.P. and Editor Michael Foot of the weekly Tribune (whose pretty, 34-year-old bride is an independent film producer) thought the government should "use the opportunity presented by the spectacle of the rocking Rank empire to go into the film business itself." Foot wants to establish a state theater circuit and a national motion picture company to finance independent producers and distribute their films. But his idea got scant support. The government has not done very well with its venture into the movie business so far. It had set up the National Film Finance Corp...
...more than a year, giant E. I. du Pont de Nemours has been trying to drum up more competition for itself in the Cellophane business-and for a very good reason. The Justice Department had indicted Du Pont (which makes about 75% of U.S. Cellophane) on charges of monopolizing the business; Du Pont wanted more evidence to prove that this was not so. Although Du Pont offered to share its patents and know-how without charge, it could find no takers-and also for a very good reason. A new Cellophane plant would require an initial investment of around...